2-Letter Words Ending in A

A female {virtuoso=n}

""A supernatural force in Sioux beliefs, also WAKANDA""

A yellow skin tumour

Highest rank in sumo

Highest sumo rank

Cubic stone (wordplay)

Compound used in abrasives

Oxide of a tetragonal mineral

""A jellylike mass of bacteria, also ZOOGLEA""

Donkey show problem (wordplay)

Animal fanatic's condition

Zygoma

Adenoma

A tree, the common mesquite

Blindness

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Lack of muscle tone.

Small Pacific fish used for bait

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Dead Roman, perhaps, or mythical Greek

Princess attached to rock stars in group

The Chained Lady

Pl. angiomas or angiomata (-m -t ) A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

Writings of dubious authorship

Secret things books left out

Writings not considered genuine

""Pl. apothecia (-s - , -sh - ) A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.""

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

English word

English word

Star-fruit tree

Star fruit

Type of pasta sauce

A sauce for pasta

Bacony pasta dish

A major type of cancer

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Variant of cherimoya .

An alga responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green

Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.

Coelom

Cognomen

Scholarly get-togethers

Conferences, meetings for discussion

Seminars, meetings for discussion

""An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.""

Digests of a sort

Short summaries

Reference works from which man copied wrongly

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""

Businesses producing iron coats

Spies entrap working-class associations

Groups require actions or else

Pl -lae [-ˌliː] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the technical name for pollen basket

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.

Diploma

Play for real (wordplay)

Program that rings true

'Based on a true story' movie

""Difficulty in speaking, usually evidenced by hoarseness.""

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

Parroter's form of speech.

Habit of repeating others' words.

Repetition of another's words

Variant of entamoeba .

""Pl. entamoebas also endamoebas or entamoebae also endamoebae (-b ) Any of several parasitic amoebas of the genus Entamoeba, especially E. histolytica, causing dysentery and ulceration of the colon and liver.""

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

Bush perhaps began in excessive optimism

Great feeling about key plant

Plant for bishop in high spirits

Exodontics.

Fibroma

""Pl -ture [-ˈtʊəreɪ] (Music, other) Music embellishment, esp ornamentation added by the performer [Italian: a blossoming]""

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

""Pl. glochids also glochidia (-k d - ) One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.""

Clap for American turn and not South American bird

The burning in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Burning"

""Pl. granulomas or granulomata (-m -t ) A mass of inflamed granulation tissue, usually associated with ulcerated infections.""

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument

English word

Speakers' receptions (wordplay)

Guest speaker fees, say

Payments to speakers, say

Body harm I'll do (wordplay)

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Hypermetropia.

Condition marked by overexcitability

English word

Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

One with a Roman upset at a fiance, say

Woman in love

Cleopatra, to Antony

Congreve's 2 Juliana

Woman in disguise.

Woman undercover

Plural of involucrum .

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

The layer of gelatinous material that separates the inner and outer cell layers of a coelenterate.

Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," for example

Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape,' for example

Old bird with no drink in singular performance

Obsession with one thing

Obsession with a single subject

Overconcentration on one theme.

Rent freezes, say

Maria, root out stays!

Temporary bans on an activity

English word

Myeloma

Myocardium

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

Liking for new things

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Massive glass houses (wordplay)

Shark tanks, maybe

Water worlds (wordplay)

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

""Pl. ommatidia (- - ) One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other arthropods.""

Players with excited roar about 16, say

Boston Pops, for one

Musicians in a pit (wordplay)

Pl. osmeteria (-tîr - ) An eversible glandular sac on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that secretes an unpleasant-smelling substance to ward off predators.

Benign swellings

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Pl. parapodia (-d - ) One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

""Any of numerous succulent tropical herbs of the genus Peperomia, having simple, entire, palmately veined leaves and numerous minute, unisexual flowers densely grouped in cylindrical spikes.""

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Suff. ; see collodion .]

""Pl. plasmodia (-d - ) A multinucleate mass of cytoplasm formed by the aggregation of a number of amoeboid cells, as that characteristic of the vegetative phase of the slime molds.""

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

English word

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

""Any of several disorders of porphyrin metabolism, usually hereditary, characterized by the presence of large amounts of porphyrins in the blood and urine.""

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Prenomen

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

English word

Temple entrances

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Tropical tree or shrub, the powdered root of which yields valuable drugs

Dogbane

Rhizoma

Turn-of-the-century health resorts

Hospitals for recuperation

Supply AA with rations in clinics

Institutions providing rest for invalids

Organising a loan isn't a bloomer

Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile

Chicle-yielding evergreen

Chicle source.

Tropical tree

Sarcoma

Logical as imitation stone (wordplay)

Imitation marble is logical as could be

Imitation marble.

Plural of sclerotium .

Scotoma

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

""A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.""

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Lamb Kabobs

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

MUCOSA a mucous membrane

""Pl. sudatoria (-tôr - , -t r - ) A hot-air room used for sweat baths. Also called sudatory .""

Turbo-charged old Chevy (wordplay)

Fabulous deli delicacy (wordplay)

Great old Chevy (wordplay)

More-southern brasserie (wordplay)

Where to get a Pisa pizza (wordplay)

Fare for Italians to get here (wordplay)

""Pl. treponemata (-m -t ) or treponemas Any of a group of spirochetes of the genus Treponema, including those that cause syphilis, pinta, and yaws.""

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

A woman who is a devotee or fan.

Sex

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

English word

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

""The affinity of cellular structures for basic dyes, such as methylene blue.""

Eye-pupil dilater

Another name for deadly nightshade

Drug made from deadly nightshade

Blastoma

English word

English word

Glory-of-the-snow

Chloasma

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Summer-theater circuit

Additive in some bug repellents

Insect repellent sprayed into cellar

""Pl. clostridia (- - ) Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, chiefly anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, such as the nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in soil and those causing botulism and tetanus.""

Plural of coelenteron .

Beetles' order

Genus of insects that includes beetles and weevils

""A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.""

Coloboma

Trill-a-minute performer (wordplay)

Musical runs and trills.

Elaborate vocal ornamentation

Pl. columbaria (- - ) also columbaries a. A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.

Harmony in a musical instrument

Cousin of the accordion.

Accordion's cousin.

Range rider, callow out West, shot!

Chain I left among red coral at sea

Group of mountain ranges

Thanksgiving Day centerpiece

Emblem of abundance.

Souvenir of Almathea, a gift from Zeus

A recording for rectification (wordplay)

Errors to be corrected (in book)

List of fixed mistakes

Venues for funeral ceremonies

Would they issue stardust in Hollywood (wordplay)

""Cyclop\'91dia The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven socalled liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia. as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.""

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

Plural of endocardium .

Plural of endometrium .

""Pl. endothecia (-s - , -sh - ) The inner tissue of an anther or a moss capsule.""

""Pl. endothelia (-l - ) A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.""

Plant bearing dense clusters of flowers

Rose with clusters of flowers

Rose with flower clusters

""Pl. florilegia (-j - ) A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.""

Same as Gluoosuria. Gluoosuria.

It has little flowers happily arranged on a string like this inside

""Pl. hemangiomas also hemangiomata (-m -t ) A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.""

Hematoma

Genetic disorder carried by Queen Victoria

Hepatoma

Theme in "Philadelphia"

Pl. hormogonia (-n - ) A part of a filament of a cyanobacterium that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

""The layer of water in a thermally stratified lake that lies below the thermocline, is noncirculating, and remains perpetually cold.""

""Size a condition in which tissue or an organ of the body fails to grow to normal size. Cf. hypertrophy . ; hypoplastic ,""

Some dice, geometrically

Twenty-sided solids

20-faced solids